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Renewal of Active School Flag
I have registered our school for the renewal of the active school flag which we have started since September. We have so many PE adventures to come and are so lucky to avail of the cream of the crop when it comes to PE instructors and teachers. Adrian is working with Fundamental movement skills along with hurling and football skills. He makes running, walking, skipping fun and the children are engaged all the time. We have just completed a 6 week Athletics program of work with Emmett and we are currently lucky to have Eoghan from Offaly sports partnership teaching a range of sports from basketball to dodge ball and lots more to come. Our classes are currently doing the Run around Ireland challenge and are doing Amazing. well done an keep it going. we are also having a motto competition for children from 2nd to 6th class and these children have an opportunity to become a member of the Active School Flag Committee. Some Pictures of us being activeSports Day 2022 |
School Plan
All classes in our school are taught all of the six strands of the PE curriculum throughout the academic year. The six strands are: Aquatics, Athletics, Games, Dance, Gymnastics and Outdoor and Adventure. Due to covid 19 we are unsure if our aquatic strand will be completed but we will hopefully teach water safety if we cannot get pool slots. Our school continues to teach a standardised PE timetable for the school year so that all classes are taught the same strand at the same time. Each teacher has a timetable. Each class teacher uses the PSSI lesson plans throughout the year to ensure a spiral approach. The PSSI lessons have been made easily accessible for all teachers to use. Physical Education is allocated 1 hour per week of overall teaching time. |
Active school Motto Winner Rory
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We held a Wow day- Walk on Wednesday to show our parents our Active Walkway and we completed 1KM together as a school community. Our Active walkway measures 250m around the track. A ll the children know where to start and finish their run or walk. We plan to hold another WOW day in March and do it on a monthly basis. Thanks to our parents for coming in to walk with us and to do exercise with us. Each class in the senior end of the school will complete walk around Ireland in the coming 4 weeks also.
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PE Audit
We did a huge clean up of our PE container and purchased new equipment and made up a new basket for each class for lunch time We purchased a new Basketball backboard and have it installed. our old one had a big hole in it |
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Outside visitors- Outdoor and Adventure
We had a visit from Michael Delaney on the 25th November to talk about mountain climbing, tent building and outdoor and pursuit and how to survive with a compass. He showed the children how to use a compass and his experience climbing Ireland's highest peak as well as getting to base camp and the dangers which came with it. We can't thank Michael enough for the amazing presentation he did on the day and the teachers and children thoroughly enjoyed it. Mìle Buìochas Michael....
We had a visit from Michael Delaney on the 25th November to talk about mountain climbing, tent building and outdoor and pursuit and how to survive with a compass. He showed the children how to use a compass and his experience climbing Ireland's highest peak as well as getting to base camp and the dangers which came with it. We can't thank Michael enough for the amazing presentation he did on the day and the teachers and children thoroughly enjoyed it. Mìle Buìochas Michael....
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Cross country running Our Girls represented our school so well in the Cross country running event which took place in Tullamore |
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